Please help identify my model

[Ebflower]

I have a model aeroplane, made by skyland models, which used to belong to my grandfather - John Phillip Smith, chief designer to Hawker Siddely Aviation. I believe it to be a model of a Trident but I'm not sure which version.

I would really like to find out as much about it as possible. Please see the pictures attatched, any information on it would be extremely welcome. Also I know it is in fairly bad condition but I would like to know a rough value of it, and if possible where a good place to sell it might be.

[Mags]

I'm sure Trident man will come to your rescue in due course

[Old Rigger]

You look to be right as according to this website it is indeed a Trident as they show one having been restored in the same colour schemes:

http://www.westway-aircraft-models.com/12.html

Possibly a CAAC HS.121 TRIDENT 3 see Ebay link;

http://shop.ebay.co.uk/?_from=R40&_trksid=p3907.m570.l1313&_nkw=trident+aircraft&_sacat=See-All-Categories

[Spitfire]

You look to be right as according to this website it is indeed a Trident as they show one having been restored in the same colour schemes:

http://www.westway-aircraft-models.com/12.html

That's a damn good link young man - had a stooge around on there and that would be my first port of call for value / worth and even cost of a restoration pre sale.

And that registration doesn't seem for real on a Trident - it was probably a promotoional item as G-ABEA is another aircraft entirely - It was an Avro 616 Sports Avian registered here in 1930 and then out to Kenya - crashed in 1936 .... could have been re-issued but it doesn't appear in the Trident Registration listings.

424 Avro 616 Sports Avian IVM Regd G-ABEA [CofR 2779] 19.8.30 to Norman Holden, Selsey (based Church Norton). CofA 2690 issued 6.9.30. Regn cld 10.31 as sold. Regd VP-KAN (CofR 14) 29.10.31 to Mrs Beryl Markham, Rongai, Nairobi. Regd (CofR 14) 20.1.36 to John Carberry, Nyeri. Regd 30.3.36 to Brig-Genl Arthur C Lewin, Njoro. Regd VP-KBY 3.4.36 to same owner. Crashed 23.11.36.

http://www.caa.co.uk/application.aspx?catid=60&pagetype=65&appid=1&mode=detailnosummary&fullregmark=ABEA